I would say if you want to play a healer....PD is not the right set....go blue side and be an emp defender....that is about as close as you will get to being a "healer" in the city of universe.
PD is fine as a healer/buffer, although therm and empathy make better healers/buffers, pain will give you better personal attakcs.
However, don't go AR. Srsly. The animation time will not only get you killed, but will prevent you from healing/buffing others while it is animating.
I don't know....I have a level 43 AR/DV blaster and the animations seem fine.
now I have not played it with PD but I don't think it would be all that bad.
AR/Pain = redraw lulz. For extra oomph go Mace Mastery so you have a second weapon to draw. 
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I would say if you want to play a healer....PD is not the right set....go blue side and be an emp defender....that is about as close as you will get to being a "healer" in the city of universe.
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My Rad/Pain Corr and my Merc/Pain keep teams alive just fine. I personally prefer Pain over Emp. Granted emps auras are decent but hardly perma w/o outside buffs. The right build can perm WoP and having a debuff in Pain helps if no debuffs are present on the team.
Not to enrage an Emp vs Pain war, but its a matter of taste. Some prefer emp some pain, long as they do their job I don't care which they are really.
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I would say if you want to play a healer....PD is not the right set....go blue side and be an emp defender....that is about as close as you will get to being a "healer" in the city of universe.
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My Rad/Pain Corr and my Merc/Pain keep teams alive just fine. I personally prefer Pain over Emp. Granted emps auras are decent but hardly perma w/o outside buffs. The right build can perm WoP and having a debuff in Pain helps if no debuffs are present on the team.
Not to enrage an Emp vs Pain war, but its a matter of taste. Some prefer emp some pain, long as they do their job I don't care which they are really.
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I am not saying they can't keep teams healed....I have an elec/pd corruptor and a necro/PD MM and both do a great job of keeping teams alive.
I was just more commenting on that if you want to be a "healer" in CO* you are probably better of playing an EMP defender...as you going to be getting bigger "green" numbers from the EMP defender then the PD MM/Corruptor....simply because of the primary vs secondary part.
While I also think the other powers in PD make it a nicer set then EMP to some (me included) the OP was asking about being a healer not which set is better.
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AR/Pain = redraw lulz. For extra oomph go Mace Mastery so you have a second weapon to draw.
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I would say if you want to play a healer....PD is not the right set....go blue side and be an emp defender....that is about as close as you will get to being a "healer" in the city of universe.
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My Rad/Pain Corr and my Merc/Pain keep teams alive just fine. I personally prefer Pain over Emp. Granted emps auras are decent but hardly perma w/o outside buffs. The right build can perm WoP and having a debuff in Pain helps if no debuffs are present on the team.
Not to enrage an Emp vs Pain war, but its a matter of taste. Some prefer emp some pain, long as they do their job I don't care which they are really.
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I am not saying they can't keep teams healed....I have an elec/pd corruptor and a necro/PD MM and both do a great job of keeping teams alive.
I was just more commenting on that if you want to be a "healer" in CO* you are probably better of playing an EMP defender...as you going to be getting bigger "green" numbers from the EMP defender then the PD MM/Corruptor....simply because of the primary vs secondary part.
While I also think the other powers in PD make it a nicer set then EMP to some (me included) the OP was asking about being a healer not which set is better.
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Indeed, consider though redside vs blueside, /Pain is the best "healer" mindset redside. Perhaps redside is where he prefers to play this concept.
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AR/Pain = redraw lulz. For extra oomph go Mace Mastery so you have a second weapon to draw.
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AR/Pain: trying to make a healer with a few decent attacks (but the focus really is on the healer side.) I can figure out most of AR but Pain is very new to me.
First off what travel power would suit me best? Are there any Pool Powers that are important? I am assuming I will need Stamina, but do i need anything like Hasten (so far at lvl 4 my heals seem to come back pretty fast already.)
General advice for a AR/Pain would be greatly appreciated!